Munich (2005) directed by Steven Spielberg Eric Bana as Avner and Geoffrey Rush as Ephraim Ephraim: We have eleven Palestinian names. Each had a hand in planning Munich. You’re going to kill them, eleven men, one by one. They’re all in Europe now. You’ll stay there as long as it takes. Europe only, not the (read…)

Based on the 2007 stage adaptation of Michael Morpurgo’s 1982 children’s novel, Steven Spielberg’s War Horse tells an epic and episodic story of war and peace as seen through the eyes of Joey, a young thoroughbred horse who begins life in rural England on the eve of World War I. As Joey changes hands, he (read…)

[Note: This review was written based on a 2D presentation of The Adventures of Tintin as seen on a DVD screener which I freely admit is no way to properly appreciate such a richly visual movie. I probably shouldn’t even run this review, and if I hadn’t liked the film I wouldn’t, but I’ll be (read…)

Pete Postlethwaite as Danny in Brassed Off Oscar nominated actor Pete Postlethwaite died today from cancer at age 64. He was most recently seen in 2010’s Inception and The Town, but he first made a big splash in Terrence Davies’ Distant Voices, Still Lives in 1988. He followed that up with his Oscar nominated supporting (read…)

Reports of Steven Spielberg’s plans to remake Harvey were greeted with widespread speculation that Tom Hanks would be a frontrunner to play the role of Elwood P. Dowd originated on film by Jimmy Stewart. Not so fast says Michael Fleming over at BFDealMemo. “While it appears there was a conversation, Hanks and Spielberg won’t pursue (read…)

Faced with the juicy rumor that Paul Greengrass (United 93, The Bourne Identity) was taking over Trial of the Chicago 7 from Steven Spielberg, CHUD’s Devin Faraci did the sensible thing and sent the man an email. Greengrass is busy in post-production with his Iraq film Green Zone starring Matt Damon, but he replied to say that, (read…)